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Goldwater to the nth power

Remember when Goldwater claimed “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” during the 1964 Presidential campaign? Ladies and gentlemen, the quite-possibly next Republican candidate for President takes old Barry’s rhetoric to new levels.

Consider:

“We have a duty to leave this country better than we found it,” Santorum said. “I believe that if we are unsuccessful in this election that we will have failed in that duty and it will have horrendous consequences. … It will be the end of the great experiment in the order of liberty and freedom.”

Well then. I guess I have no choice but to vote for Mr. Santorum else the United States of America will collapse into the dustbin of history, never to return.

I really really hope the Republican Party nominates this guy. Not even the American voters who put the Tea Party House in office could be insane enough to vote for a man who wants to create Margaret Atwood’s Republic of Gilead within our borders, while at the same time wanting to bomb to pieces a similar theocratic state like Iran.

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I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance … and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance … to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money…as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.